Definitions for corymb

corymb cor·ymb

Spelling: [kawr-imb, -im, kor-]
IPA: /ˈkɔr ɪmb, -ɪm, ˈkɒr-/

Corymb is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in corymb (bcmory).

Definitions for corymb

noun

  1. a form of inflorescence in which the flowers form a flat-topped or convex cluster, the outermost flowers being the first to open.

Origin of corymb

1700-10; Latin corymbus Greek kórymbos head, top, cluster of fruit or flowers

Examples for corymb

It has a rosette of root-leaves, from which rises a naked scape bearing a corymb of largish white flowers.

It grows from two to four feet high, and bears a corymb of many yellow heads, from July to September.

The axis of a corymb is short in proportion to the lower pedicels.

Ivy-branches, dividing both ways from the handle, surround its rim with a delicate tracery of sharp-cut leaf and corymb.

Their flower-heads are yellow, arranged in a corymb, and bloom during the whole of the summer.

Cyme, in appearance much like a corymb, but it differs in the fact that the central flower blooms first.

corymbose, in corymbs, approaching the form of a corymb, or branched in that way.

Second, the cauliflower, which is a cluster (corymb) of forced cabbage flowers.

The numerous flower-heads are arranged in a corymb, and are about half an inch in diameter, with white ray and yellow disc.

Flowers large, to 2/3 in., many in a corymb, on glandular peduncles.

Word Value for corymb
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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